Dogwood Spring: Texture and a Tip for Tuesday

Dogwood Spring: Texture and a Tip for Tuesday

We finally had a beautiful sunny morning and as I was sitting at my desk drinking coffee, I noticed how striking the white dogwood blossoms were against the bright cloudless sky. I used the lens baby to selectively focus on the one branch and add a nice blur to the...
Another DIY Flash Experiment

Another DIY Flash Experiment

Only this one is a little more involved than the macro studio light box thing. That has been working wonders! I’m so happy with it and the light I get out of it. It’s every bit as nice as natural light but it has the added benefit of being stronger so I...
A Macro Studio for Free

A Macro Studio for Free

Wow! Thirty minutes of effort (and most of that spent trying to find the tape and tissue paper) and absolutely no cost and look at the light it created! Oh, this is so exciting. Do you see the detail in that dogwood blossom? I’ve never been able to stop down the...
Feathered Visitors

Feathered Visitors

Well hello there Mr. & Mrs. Purple Finch! I am so excited that we are finally starting to get some visitors to our new bird feeder. Of course they couldn’t have come during March so I could have contributed more to Jill’s adorable Tweeter Board but...
Love that Lensbaby

Love that Lensbaby

Just a few of my favorite shots so far. Someone said somewhere that Lensbabies and flowers go together like peanut butter and jelly. Yeah. I’d have to agree. Loads of inspiration here! And Madeline Bea wrote a beautiful post (full of pictures of her little...